In arsenic contaminated areas of the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra (GMB) plain (area 569 749 sq. km; population over 500 million) where traditionally cow dung cake is used as a fuel in unventilated ovens for cooking purposes, people are simply exposed to 1859.2 ng arsenic per day through direct inhalation, of which 464.8 ng could be absorbed in respiratory tract. © The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Bhaskar Das

Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

School of Civil Engineering

Vellore Campus

A. Pal

B. Nayak

M.A. Hossain

S. Ahamed

D. Chakraborti

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Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Additional danger of arsenic exposure through inhalation from burning of cow dung cakes laced with arsenic as a fuel in arsenic affected villages in Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plain